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Southwest Airlines Triple Crown
1,415 words... ne. Same Three comes to the surface to fly its colors. Lone Star One takes to the sky as Southwest Airlines' 20 th Anniversary flagship Boeing 737. 1992 Wins the first annual Triple Crown in 1992 - a feat no other airline has been able to match in a single month! 1993 Expand to the east coast and begins service to Baltimore/Washington International Airport. Captures the second annual Triple Crown in 1993. 1994 Introduces Ticketless Travel in four cities. Morris Air is merged with Southwest. ...
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Compromise Of 1850 Runaway Slaves
498 wordsCompromise Measures of 1850 also known as the Compromise of 1850. This act was a series of five legislative enactment's passed by United States Congress. Many territories from the west were now asking for admittance into the United States as an official state. This brought many questions to the table. Today at a meeting many other states followed California as they applied to enter into the union. This will be a problem for the north and south. Before now there were 15 free states and 15 slave s...
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Unborn Child Supreme Court
664 wordsRoe vs. Wade Roe vs. Wade was a court case based on abortion and a womans right to choose. At the time of this court case the present law in Texas stated that it was illegal to get an abortion, unless the mothers life was in danger. The main character in this movie was named Ellen. Ellen was a single woman who was pregnant; the father was out of the picture. Ellen had already given birth to one child named Cheryl a few years before. Her mother adopted this first child and moved to new Mexico. El...
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Franklin D Roosevelt Third Party Candidates
1,672 words... ifi cantly changes, thus causing some major upsets. Wilson won because congress voted him in, not because he was elected. If Roosevelt hadn't formed his own party, Taft would have had a better chance of becoming President of the United States. 1936 The candidates in the election of 1936 were, Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, Alfred M. Landon, a Republican, and Norman Thomas, a Socialist. Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, at Hyde Park, N. Y. , to James Roosevelt. He was an average stu...
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Texas V Andrea Yates
1,040 wordsTexas v. Andrea Yates A 37 year-old women stunned the nation when she drowned all five of her children on June 20, 2001. Her name is Andrea Yates and she went on trial for their murders in the case known as Texas v. Andrea Yates. Her trail lasted for four weeks and much controversy surrounded it. Andrea admitted to police that she drowned her five children: Noah, 7, John, 5, Paul, 3, Luke, 2, and Mary 6 months. This whole situation turned into a controversy because prosecutors in the case tried ...
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Mannlicher Carcano Rifle Lee Harvey Oswald
1,622 words# 8220; The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, killed President Kennedy. Do you agree?" Contrary to the Warren Commission's findings, Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, did not kill President John F. Kennedy. There are several crucial areas of evidence, which prove Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill the president. Numerous eyewitness accounts show that the shots came from the direction of the grassy knoll (Jack Hill), and not from the Texas School Book Depositary. The nu...
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Women And Girls Womens Rights
1,049 wordsAbuse transitive verb 1: to put to a wrong or improper use; 2: obsolete (deceive); 3: to use so as to injure or damage (maltreat); 4: to attack in words (revile). noun 1: a corrupt practice or custom; 2: improper or excessive use or treatment (misuse); a deceitful act (deception); 4: language that condemns or vilifies usually unjustly, intemperately, and angrily; 5: physical maltreatment. Abuse, in any and all of its forms, is something many Korean women and girls deal with every day. In 2002, a...
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Fight To The Death Due To The Fact
1,067 words... one. While the siege was going on nearly ten thousand more settlers assembled outside the city. The one problem was that these soldiers were getting bored and had nothing to do. Many started to return home either out of boredom or belief that the war was over. Only one hundred and fifty men were left to face the winter under the leadership of Sam Houston. The soldiers assumed that the Mexicans who now were driven South were very unlikely to return for the duration of the winter months. Sam H...
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United States Of America Santa Fe
5,267 words/> [The following is an earlier version of the essay published under the title "Begetting the Mexican American" in Seeds of Struggle, Harvest of Fair, LPD Press, c. 1998, pp. 345 - 72. Permission from Publisher and my own as author to use for educational purposes. ] PADRE ANTONIO JOSE MARTINEZ: BROKER FOR NON VIOLENT CONQUEST AND THE TAOS UPRISING OF 1847 by Rev. Juan Romero INTRODUCTION The year 1998 will mark the fourth centennial of the founding in northern New Mexico of the second oldest Eur...
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Major League Baseball Baseball Player
1,154 wordsThe film Rookie is a factual drama that is based on the life of Jimmy Morris, an ex-major league baseball player. The subject matter of the movie was to never quit; try, try again or at least until you reach your goal. This film inspires the person to fulfill their dreams no matter how impossible they may seem. There were not many major characters in this movie, but all played an important roll to the subject matter. Jimmy Morris was the main character, a young man, about 30 years old with a wif...
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Sam Houston White Settlers
1,090 wordsWhatever you Want The Texas War for Independence was fought from October 2, 1835 to April 21, 1836. It came as the result of White anglo-season settlers' continuing frustration with Mexican government, which was striving hard to rid them of their ancestral traditions by enforcing Catholicism. They rightfully considered such practice as the ultimate tool of making them to disappear in the racial melting pot that became of Mexico. It took less than ten years for the Protestant colonists to increas...
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Chiang Kai Shek Cuban Missile Crisis
3,814 wordsJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35 th President of the United States, the youngest person ever to be elected President, the first Roman Catholic and the first to be born in the 20 th century. Kennedy was assassinated before he completed his third year as President therefore his achievements were limited. Nevertheless, his influence was worldwide, and his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis may have prevented the United States from entering into another wo...
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Flag Burning Supreme Court
505 wordsFlag burning is absolutely not a valid form of political expression under the first amendment. Though the Supreme Court, in the case of Gregory Johnson, ruled that it was in fact constitutional to allow people to burn the flag, the evidence against this ruling is overwhelming. First, the first amendment does provide protection to demonstrators wishing to voice their political opinions vocally and symbolically, the amendment does not allow for the desecration of sacred objects such as flags, ceme...
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George W Bush Television And Radio
1,837 wordsBoth campaigns running at full steam; Gore, Bradley release fresh TV ads CLINTON, S. C. Texas Gov. George W. Bush expressed confidence Friday that he would win South Carolinas Republican presidential primary while Sen. John McCain declared that a victory for him would show that the Republican establishment cant stop us. Buoyed by polls showing him ahead, Bush said he was very optimistic about whats going to happen (Saturday). I feel great about my chances. In Charleston, McCain told a thunderous...
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Annotated Bibliography Solid Waste
1,229 wordsHOUSEHOLD RECYCLING: EASIER THAN YOU THINK! by Amy Newman Thesis: After reading this essay, I will fully understand the issue of recycling and the three solutions I have found. Primary Audience: Myself Purpose: To provide myself with the information necessary to choose the proper recycling program I feel is the most efficient and effective. English 1302, 7010 Professor Ice September 22, 2000 Annotated Bibliography Carless, Jennifer. Taking Out The Trash: A No-Nonsense Guide to Recycling. Washing...
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4,026 wordsThe Life and Legend of Howard Hughes Throughout the 20 th century, it has been the media? s job to pinpoint what events and people would prove to be an effective story. This was certainly the case for Howard R. Hughes. Son to the wealthy Howard Hughes Sr. , Howard became the interest of the American people and newspapers for most of his life. Being deemed one of the most famous men of the mid- 20 th century was greatly attributed to Hughes? s skills as an industrialist, aviator, and motion-pictu...
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Supreme Court Appellate Court
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2,074 wordsMilitarization of the U. S. Mexico Border By Joan J. Jaime's June 22, 2000? Corranle, all? viene la might! , translated into English, this means Run, there comes immigration! This is what illegal immigrants shout everyday when they are about to cross the Rio Grande in search for better lives. Unfortunately, not many get through alive because of the militarization that has developed on the U. S. border with Mexico. Operation Rio Grande continues a process put in motion over a century ago by the T...
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Ku Klux Klan Commit A Crime
2,669 wordsRacism &# 038; Hate Crimes in America Blacks were introduced to American soil during the 17 th and 18 th centuries via the triangular trade route, and were welcomed by whips, chains, shackles, and all the horrors of slavery. Slavery was legitimized by our government and continued for a few hundred years, taking a civil war and sixteen presidents before it was abolished. To this day, there is still much hatred between blacks and whites despite emancipation, desegregation, and integration; some wo...
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Governor Of Texas Radical Reconstruction
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